It's Greek to Me
Measurements
Are you Being Served?
Tenacious Tenancy
Show Me the Money
100

This is a person appointed to represent the interests of a minor or incapacitated person in a court proceeding.

What is Guardian Ad Litem?

100

The number of Acres in a Section.

What is 640?

100

The Defendant in this type of real estate dispute has 21 days to Answer the Summons.

What is an Action to Determine Adverse Claims or Quiet Title Action?

100

Pursuant to Minn. Stat. 500.19, this is the default tenancy in Minnesota.

What is Tenancy in Common?

100

This is the minimum State Deed Tax in 85 Counties?

What is $1.65?

200

Adding an attorney to a case who is not licensed in that jurisdiction requires this type of admission.

What is Pro Hac Vice?

200

The number of feet in a mile.

What is 5,280?

200

A Mechanic's Lien Claimant must wait this long before the Defendant is in Default.

What is 20 days?

200

This person has the right to occupy the property until their death.

What is a Life Tenant?

200

In these two Counties minimum State Deed Tax is $1.70.

What are Hennepin and Ramsey Counties?

300

When a court takes action on its own motion without prompting from either party.

What is Sua Sponte?

300

The number of rods in a chain or a typical platted road.

What is 4?

300

The Defendant has this long to respond to the Summons in an Initial Registration.

What is 20 days?

300

Rather than granting an easement, a property owner might choose to grant his neighbor this for his encroaching fence.

What is a license?

300

This is the recording fee for a document in abstract?

What is $46?

400

Certain officeholders may act as notaries based on the office they hold, such as State Legislators. This term describes that authority.

What is Ex Officio?

400

This measure is 198 inches or 16.5 feet.

What is a rod?

400

This Defendant always gets 60 days to Answer a Summons in a real property case.

What is the United States?

400

This document is recorded to vest title in the surviving joint tenant(s).

What is an Affidavit of (Identity and) Survivorship?

400

This is the cost of a certified copy from District Court.

What is $14?

500

Often found in old abstracts of title this phrase indicates that a document was joined in by the signer's wife.

What is Et Uxor (et ux)?

500

This measures 7.92 inches and is 1/100th of a chain.

What is a link?

500

Serving a dissolved, withdrawn or revoked entity by serving the Secretary of State is effective 30 days after this occurs.

What is mailing by the Secretary of State?

500

A form of joint tenancy between spouses, this is not recognized in Minnesota.

What is Tenancy by the Entirety?

500

The $5 Conservation Fee applies to these two types of documents.

What are deeds and mortgages?